Archery
Asia Cup Archery: Indian archers secure spot in all ten finals
Indian archers continued the momentum in the individual elimination rounds and added more spots in the final at the Asia Cup.
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Indian archers carried their momentum of the team events in the individual elimination rounds and secured at least one spot in each of the ten finals with three all-Indian finals at the Asia Cup in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday.
The first All-Indian final will be in the men's recurve category where experienced archers Dhiraj Bommadevara and Tarundeep Rai will go head-on against each other on Sunday.
Dhiraj reached the final after taking a 7-1 win over Uzbekistan's Amirkhan Sadikov, who knocked out another Indian, Parth Salunkhe in a close 6-5 match that went into shoot-off at the quarterfinals.
On the other hand, Tarundeep attained a 6-2 win over Bangladesh's Md Hakim Ahmed Rubel, who upset second-seeded and Olympian Pravin Ramesh Jadhav with a 6-4 win in the quarterfinals.
Deepika Kumari is into the final on the comeback
Deepika Kumari reached the final of women's recurve in her first international tournament after a comeback to the team. She takes a 7-1 win over Nilufar Hamroeva of Uzbekistan in the semis.
Deepika will face another young Indian archer Simranjeet Kaur in the final on Sunday. Simranjeet reached the final after winning a close 6-5 shoot-off win in the semis against Ziyodakhon Abdusattorova.
Nilufar reached the semis after knocking out India no.1, Bhajan Kaur with a comfortable 6-2 victory in the quarterfinals while Ziyadakhon knocked out Ankita Bhakat in a 6-5 shootoff victory.
Parneet Upsets World champion Aditi
Parneet Kaur continued her good form of the last year and upset (148-147) her teammate, world champion Aditi Gopichand Swami in the semis of the women's compound to book a place in the final.
She will play against a tough Iranian archer Fatemeh Hemmati in the final, who knocked out (145-143) another Indian Priya Gujar in the semis.
Priya will take on Aditi Swami for the Bronze medal tomorrow. She will try to take the win in her second all-Indian clash of the tournament after beating Sakshi Chaudhary in the quarterfinals.
In the men's compound, there is an all-Indian clash in the final between Prathmesh Jawkar and Kushal Dalal. Prathmesh puts up an excellent performance in the semis to outscore his Kazakh opponent, Akbarali Karabayev with a perfect 150 in contrast to his 147.
On the other hand, Kushal took a 149-146 win to upset the top-seeded Iranian, Armin Pakzad to book a spot in the final.
The other two players, Piyush Joshi, and Priyansh were knocked out in the quarterfinals after losing their respective matches to Akbarali and Kushal respectively.